No Standing

There was so much noise coming from the street (not an unusual situation on lower Broadway) that we decided to close our office windows. In doing so, we observed a typical construction site but noticed a not so typical work scenario - the backhoe operator was stretched out, snoozing away in plain view of passersby and traffic - here's the perspective from the window. I couldn't resist a quick photo break and went down to the street for more photos. His compadres were busy doing hard labor - digging by hand with shovels, cutting pipe, etc. We noticed his (in)activity went out until noon, when he awoke and started reading the newspaper (lunch break?). I learned from this that being a heavy machinery operator might have some privileges and that Caterpillar must make some very efficient equipment. In fairness, I did notice a number of No Standing signs in the area - perhaps he was just following the rules to the letter :)